Nylic Street named for business interest of Wadsworth's

Street named for insurance business

1:16 AM,
Nov. 7, 2012

Wadsworth was a developer and insurance agent.

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Streets of a small enclave of rental houses and apartments near FSU are named for its developers - and an insurance company.

Howell Wadsworth, a Tallahassee real estate entrepreneur and insurance executive, once owned land at West Tennessee and Brevard streets, where, among other things, he was responsible for creating a housing development in the early 1950s. The street that runs off Tennessee Street is named Wadsworth; another is named Hancock, for Wadsworth's development partner, Melvin Hancock. A third street is named Nylic, an acronym for New ...